[U-Boot] [RFC] Review of U-Boot timer API

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Saturday, May 21, 2011 08:38:29 Graeme Russ wrote:
> NOTE: http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-June/073024.html appears
> to imply the following implementation of get_timer() is wrong:
> 
> 	ulong get_timer(ulong base)
> 	{
> 		return get_timer_masked() - base;
> 	}

while this specific code might be wrong due to assumed timer rollover 
behavior, i think the code is wrong to ignore "base" completely.  but maybe it 
doesnt matter after we rewrite things :).

> blackfin
>  - Provides a 64-bit get_ticks() which simply returns 32-bit get_timer(0)

seems to me that most arches do this

>  - get_usec_timer_64() could offer a longer period (584942 years!)

if the hardware can support that large of a timer ...

otherwise, i'd love to see the whole timer API reduced to just get_timer() and 
a proper doc/README.timer written.
-mike
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